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From: Matthew Carter <m@ahungry.com>
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Subject: Re: PHP boilerplate to appear at the top of any program
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 21:40:12 -0500
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Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> writes:

> On 12/21/2015 5:53 PM, Daniel Pitts wrote:
>> 99.9% of my php files look something like the following.  If I use
>> require/include, it is a very specialized thing I'm doing.  Probably the
>> bootstrap or front-controller.
>> 
>> <?php
>> namespace ...;
>> 
>> use ...;
>> use ...;
>> 
>> /**
>>  * ...
>>  */
>> class ...
>> {
>> }
>
> Why do you use namespaces?  They are very useful in languages like C++,
> but pretty worthless in PHP.
>
> As I said before, I do use it for my own classes, and things like
> userids/passwords, which I store outside of my DOCUMENT_ROOT.
>
> But I have never found a need for namespaces in PHP (unlike C++).

http://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-4/

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Matthew Carter (m@ahungry.com)
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